Auburn vs. West Virginia Review –
 
Lets be honest who didn’t think in the back of there mind this game was where we were going to turn the corner. This was the game where we beat West Virginia on national television and everyone forgets about the losses, the spread and terrible season. Then the game started. Here is a quick review of the events in the past week.
 
1. Fans – Watching the game I noticed that the only West Virginia fans they seemed to show were the ones that had their summer teeth, which was some were teeth and some were not. It looked as if many of their fans had cleaned out the cold medicine and cleaning products from the local pharmacies or as we call it meth 101. How many coon skin caps did you see, good lord. If that’s the ladies fashion of West Virginia then I assume women shop for evening wear at the local taxidermist. There were quite a few Coal Miners Daughters in the stands, none of them even close to Sissy Spacek. Also it was strange I saw West Virginias marching band, but I didn’t see one single banjo player. Ok enough bashing the other team. The beat us but it feels good to get it out. Lets get to the real problems.
 
2. Tubbs – I have heard it all this week from rage to hopelessness towards Coach Tubbs. 1st I thought it was funny that so many people commented on the color of Tubbs jacket during the game. Many of you said it was the wrong orange. I am sure Queer Eye from the straight guy dressed him. He has no clue as to the difference between a burnt orange or a pumpkin orange and neither do I thank god. If he wears pink and wins I don’t care. Say what you will Tubbs cares; he laid all of his emotions out on the field. He couldn’t play the game for his team. Many of the fans have called for him to resign. We have all asked, who are we going to hire? Who will take the job? How will we come up with the money? These are all questions so far no one can agree on what to do. I say he stays because him leaving would kill our program and our pocketbooks. Football rules at Auburn. They don’t build all of those new education buildings with chess team receipts. It’s a fact when the football team is on the up more people purchase items and donate. Tubbs has done a lot for the program and I think he needs another chance. He gambled on the spread and it didn’t work and it has sunk the entire year. My prediction is he gets a reprieve from the warden (Lowder) but he has to make some personnel changes on his staff. I don’t think Tubbs will fire his coaches he will probably create a position for them elsewhere.

 
3. Franklin – Well the rat spoke as the ship was sinking last week. I knew last week we wondered how long it would be till the rat came a calling. Well two weeks didn’t seem like such a long time but not when you are a rat. Most coaches have a code like the mafia you don’t speak about the unspoken. Not Franklin, he had only been out of the door two weeks before he started blabbing like a little girl like he was on the Montel Williams Show. The fact that he went on the Finebaum show to express himself is even worse. He knew Finebaum is a muckraker and that Tubberville despises the man. So much for journalism credibility. It’s kind of like breaking a story on genocide in Darfur at the National Enquirer. I couldn’t believe he actually tried to feed us that bull that his neighbors and friends in Auburn still are nice to him. I can tell you if I was his neighbor I would steal his newspaper, salt his lawn and then probably ask for a loan since he has no job and $600,000.00.
 
4. Players – There weren’t many highlights last week from any of our players. Defensively that was the worst game I have seen us play this year, which is saying a lot. Really I watched the game and cant say one nice thing. I would say player of the game should have gone to the team pilot who flew the team out of town after that embarrassing loss. Can you name one? We didn’t have a running back rush for more than one hundred yards, Our quarterback passed for an inch over one hundred yards and our defense even let the opposing teams mascot score. Really I am blank. Don’t say Tommy Trott because he caught the ball. That’s his job, which is like rewarding a fire fighter for putting out fires.
 
5. Next week – Here we sit with Ole Miss, both at 4-4 battling it out for third or fourth place in the western division. However, we are two very different teams. Ole Miss has a big win over Florida and near win over Alabama. Auburn has a 3-2 over Mississippi State. So yes this year we cant even count on Ole Miss as a guaranteed win. The Tigers travel to Oxford hoping that the ghost of William Faulkner won’t write the final chapter in their season and possibly their coach’s career. I know it seems every week we as Auburn fans say this is the week. Well I do believe if we don’t win this one then 5-7 is a reality. If we beat Ole Miss 6-6 becomes a reality as sad as that is. Yes, save your money for Christmas money because at 6-6 the Tigers could be headed to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana. Bama has been there a lot recently so maybe their fans can tell us what bingo parlors and Ruby Tuesdays we can visit while there. I know its embarrassing to be 6-6 and go to a bowl. Its almost like a prize served with humility. Pretty much how the Griswold’s felt when they won Pig in a Poke, dressed a pigs on European Vacation. I will take it. Why do you ask? It gives us three weeks of extra practice and more time to find a coordinator not named Franklin or Borges. My Predictions for this weekend is that being its a Raycom game I will adjust my television set several times assuming the cable is unplugged. Thirty minutes later I will remember that the game is on Raycom and that their broadcasting budget consists of a doublewide trailer, chicken wire, a coat hanger and three guys named Dave. I predict we will see many Ole Miss students named after civil war generals in the stands wearing bow ties getting drunk yelling Hotty Totty next to their date who swears she is going to be the next Faith Hill. Next to that I predict that I will be either relived or depressed before 2:30. In the end I say the Tigers hang on as Tubby coaches for his job the place where it all began ten years ago.
 
Auburn 21- Ole Miss 20